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John Hertz started to retire after he sold his Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. in 1925 to General Motors. He gave more time to his race horses, turned down a $1,000,000 offer for Reigh Count, his Kentucky Derby winner, remarking: "I think any fellow who would pay a million for a horse ought to have his head examined, and the fellow who turned it down must be absolutely unbalanced." But his thick, sinewy figure continued to be a familiar sight wherever Chicago deals were done. In 1931 Kuhn, Loeb & Co. called him in to help with their ailing Paramount...
...started on a walk after luncheon, failed to telephone her hourly as was his custom, missed a dinner engagement. While newspapers headlined "kidnap,"' police and Federal agents scoured the city. A taxicab driver who took Mr. Livermore to his office said he had become "terribly sick" in the cab. Day after his disappearance Mr. Livermore returned home, walking unsteadily, his face muffled inside his coat collar (see cut). His story: he had spent the night in a hotel, had awakened with a blank mind; newspaper headlines about himself brought him to his senses. His doctor's story: "Amnesia...
...Ruth Volz found "a string of beads," put them on. Few days later her husband noticed that they had an emerald clasp, rightly guessed that they were the $70,000 pearl necklace lost by Leona Jane Ettlinger while walking with her father, Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, Dec. 18). Mrs. Volz returned the pearls, collected $5,000 reward, returned to her job as nursemaid with a Park Avenue family. Exasperated because friends daily distracted Mrs. Volz with congratulatory visits and telephone calls, because newshawks and cameramen flocked about her, Mrs. Volz's employer dismissed...
...with a Cantab than a Princetonian for all his smoothness (a term which, by the way, has lost some of its former snap). He might not understand the "indifference" of the Harvard man, but he would get goddam sick and tired of hearing about the nifty third sax in Cab Casa Loma's orchestra as set forth by the Tiger...
Leona Jane Ettlinger, elder daughter of Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co., returned from a walk with her father in Manhattan's Central Park, found that she had lost a $70,000 necklace containing 77 pearls, four emeralds, a large diamond...